Zulqarnain Haider being ignored by hometown, searching beyond Lahore

Image via WikipediaZulqarnain Haider is searching for a team to play in the next month's National T20 Championship as he has not been selected in any of the two Lahore City Cricket Association (LCCA) teams.

The LCCA announced the two squads on Tuesday with Test players Abdul Razzaq and Taufiq Umar as the captains but didn't name controversial stumper Zulqarnain in either team.

Brothers, Kamran and Adnan Akmal have been named as the wicket-keepers in the Lahore teams.

"It is disappointing to not be considered in either of the two Lahore teams because this is my home region and if they don't play me who will select me," Haider complained.

"I want to impress the national selectors and make a comeback but Lahore has ignored me. So now the only option I have is to try to play for some other association in the National T20 championship."

LCCA President Khawaja Nadeem said only those players were considered and selected in the Lahore teams who have played cricket in the last one year at domestic and international levels.

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US citizen Warren not recovered yet

Reuters Report: Pakistani intelligence officials denied reports on Thursday that an American development expert, kidnapped 12 days ago in the eastern city of Lahore, had been rescued, saying an early morning rescue operation was unsuccessful.

Early reports from police officials and local media said Warren Weinstein, 70, the country director for J.E. Austin Associates Inc., an Arlington, Virginia.-based consulting firm, had been rescued in Khushab in Punjab province.

"He has not been recovered yet," a senior intelligence official in Punjab told Reuters.

He criticised the Lahore police chief, Ahmed Raza Tahir, for telling the media yesterday that Weinstein would be recovered "soon" and jeopardising an intelligence operation to rescue him.

"There was an operation in the Khushab area this morning, but it was unsuccessful, as the captors moved away," the intelligence official said.

Earlier, a police official told Reuters that Weinstein had been rescued. Local television channels also reported the release. Two hours after the initial reports, the U.S. embassy said it could not confirm Weinstein's rescue. A spokeswoman for the embassy said it was in contact with police officials, and none of them could confirm it either.

Weinstein had been working on a development project in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas where Pakistani troops have been battling Islamist insurgents for years.

Up to eight assailants kidnapped Weinstein in a pre-dawn raid on his house in Lahore on August 13.

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